After Denis Villeneuve’s crime thriller Sicario a few years back became a hit, as Hollywood often decides to do, a “saga” has now been born. While Emily Blunt, Roger Deakins, and Villeneuve all steered clear of the sequel, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are back, as is writer Taylor Sheridan, and the first trailer has landed for Sicario 2: Soldado. Directed by Stefano Sollima (Suburra, the TV series version of Gomorrah) and shot by Ridley Scott’s frequent cinematographer Dariusz Wolski, this time around it looks to lean heavier on the action front as it’s now positioned as a summer blockbuster, arriving in June.
“We learn from Alejandro in Sicario that he was a man who was motivated by revenge, right? And then in Soldado, he gets selected to a new assignment by John Brolin and then at some point he’s at a crossroads in that situation where he either has to follow orders or make the right decision, and so that’s kind of where the character’s stuck, you know?,” Benicio Del Toro tells EW. “And that’s the cool thing about the character, is that he’s got to make a decision and then the consequences will follow if he goes this way or the other way, so I would say that’s the difference for the character in this movie versus the Alejandro in Sicario.”
See the trailer below.
Sicario 2: Soldado opens on June 29, 2018.